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. UNITED STATES 1 ATENT FFICE.

MEDICATED SOAP'.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 287,642, dated October30, 1883,

Application filed September 13. 1883. (No specimens.)

To to whom/it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN J AMEs DILLARD, of Eureka Springs, in thecounty of Carroll and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Medicated Soap; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

phur, one and one-half pound glycerine, threefourths pound borax, twoand one-half ounces chrysophanic acid, and nine ounces tincture arnica.The chrysophanic acid is dissolved in the tincture of arnica andfiltered, and these two ingredients are added to the borax and sulphur,which have been previously prepared as follows: The borax is boiled inthe five pounds of water, and the sulphur is added when the water isboiling. These ingredients are well stirred and taken from the fire,and, being well covered, are allowed to cool for about ten minutes. Itis then filtered, and to it are added the chrysophanic acid and arnica.I then take thirty-five pounds of English concentrated lye prepared bybeing boiled in.

Eureka Springs water until it reaches36 by the hydrometer(Reaumursscale)when cooled. Then take seventy pounds of cocoanut-oil heated to42, (Reaumurs,) and the lye thus I prepared is slowly mixed with thecocoanut-oil.

0.13 grains; bicarbonate lime, 4.43 grains; bi-

carbonate magnesia, 0.47 grains; iron and alumina, 0.08 grains; silica,0.31 grains; free ammonia, 0.14 grains; albuminoid ammonia, 0.07 grains,This water is concentrated by evaporation to one-fourth its volume,which has the effect of multiplying the amount of mineral constituentsfor a given body of water four times. With this formula it is easy toprepare the chemical equivalent of the I water when the original watercannot be obtained.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is The soapherein described, compounded of the following elements: EurekaSpringswater, or its chemical equivalents, sulphur, glycerine, borax,chrysophanic acid, tincture arnica, cocoanut-oil, and concentrated lye,in or about the proportions described.

JOHN JAMES DILLARD.

Witnesses:

A. DAvIs, W. B. SMITH.

